so you admit in a public forum that you routinely violate operating regulations (as far as I know no state has a 80 mph speed limit for an 80000 pound rig) and you think the FAA has no reason to question your ability to control a vehicle in three dimensions at far greater rates than that?
South Dakota speed limit is 85
Not sure about SD, but many states have a lower max speed limit for certain truck/trailer combinations. It's not necessarily posted.
The FAA should take into account who the person actually is, what they do for a living, what their hobbies are, like get to know them somehow, do they volunteer in the community, do they have a family, do they coach their kids baseball, etc.
no, south dakota is 80 mph not 85. again, attention to details. also just as a side note truck tires are only rated for 75 mph. running above that would be a violation of FAR 91.13 if the FARs applied to the trucking industry.
They're are speed limits in the US that are 85. Not sure if what states are, i think Texas might be.
Because the process isn’t overly-burdened enough?
I get that... maybe they should shove the decisions off to the AMEs.
That would certainly speed up the process.
What about Sport Pilot? The only gatekeeping there is a driver's license. And SPs don't have medical incapacitation events any more than the others.
one 41 mile section of state highway 130 in texas is posted 85 thats it for the entire country.
It's not the subject of the thread or the comment I responded to.
As one of the ever fewer people actually working and paying ever higher taxes, I am going to continue to complain that we never get what we pay for. How about all of these people and agencies actually do what they promised us.
How many of those medical conditions that are disqualifying fall into the realm of things like "I have sleep apnea" or "I have diabetes?"
Not yet.
BASICMED has been around for over 10 years now - I know because I switched to BASICMED pretty much the day it was enacted.
Sport Pilot has been law for 22 years now. I think that's long enough to have some data.
I'd like to add something to this thread... if you go to an AME and get deferred, I think the FAA needs to pay for those extra services. The extra evaluations needed by specialists. And if they won't do that, they should allow the medicals to be covered under your health insurance.
While we’re at it, the FAA should pay for all of the remedial training and recheck(s) after a checkride bust, and pay maintenance for every POS airplane bought without an adequate prepurchase inspection, and…
I think they should set a cap for what a DPE can charge for checkrides, but for the prepurchase inspection... that's on you bud. Does the FAA require you to do a prepurchase inspection? Does it say anywhere that when you buy a plane, the FAA won't allow you to own it without the inspection?
So decrease DPE experience and availability…
You don’t need a medical to own an airplane, either.
Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) checkride costs typically range from $600 to $1,500+, with $800–$1,000 being common for Private Pilot checkrides.
Unfortunately your opinion doesn’t change what would happen if the government controlled pricing.
If the assertion is that the reason sport pilots don't have more medically-related accidents than medical-certificate holders is that the performance standards one has to meet in order to complete SP training and pass the checkride are preventing people with relevant medical issues from getting an SP certificate, it sounds like the training and checkride standards are solving the problem.
This has nothing to do specifically with sport pilots. I am specifically addressing any person who is certificated to fly an airplane with zero medical evaluation. In the situation of sport pilots, the medical evaluation is never for the pilots who also have the lowest level of flight training.
You're the first person I've ever seen wish that check rides were longer.
The statement I was replying to seemed to be implying that those medical conditions were preventing people who had them from completing flight training and passing a checkride, thereby preventing them from becoming pilots. If they are prevented from becoming pilots, then you will not be flying around them.
That's irrelevant when the accident rate is expressed as accidents per flight hour. But there are a lot of Private or higher certificate holders (I am one of them) "exercising sport pilot privileges" without a medical. And no matter how hard you try to ignore the facts, they're NOT having medical related accidents at a higher rate than pilots with medicals. So please give it a rest. You can snobbishly choose to shun those lowly sport pilots who you think aren't your social equals, but it doesn't change the facts.
It's relevant because smaller sample sizes produce less statistically significant results. Especially when dealing with very infrequent events. This is just a comment on statistics, not the efficacy of sport pilot.
Actually, it's 80 and then only on the interstates.
True, and I knew somebody would point that out. But even a small sample size will show some trend if there's a strong correlation... which does not seem to be the case here. With MOSAIC, we may have more data in a few years, and then one or the other camp may be able to say, "I told you so!"
In your estimate of sample size, are you including the holders of private and higher pilot certificates who are exercising sport pilot privileges without either BasicMed or a current medical certificate?
Personally, I appreciate it when people probe for holes in my reasoning, because it provides me with opportunities to consider whether there is something that I have failed to consider.
Personally, i'd flip the logic, if the data doesn't actually show a problem, I won't spend my personal money to "solve" the scary could-be might-be problem. I also don't think taxpayers should be borrowing money to solve it either.
That's right. There are many pilots on basic med who could be flying on an FAA medical. I am one. I had an FAA medical, got on basic med, and let my medical expire. But there's no reason to believe that I would not immediately get a medical if I applied for one. No one would expect basic med, or sport pilot for that matter, to increase the rate of incidents among pilots who qualify for an FAA medical. The more interesting question to me, is what is the rate of incidents among pilots who do not qualify for an FAA medical, but nevertheless can fly using basic med or sport